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Thursday, January 8, 2009

Paris Hilton's IQ is 125. Are you smarter than Paris?

I'm not sure about you but I have been annoyed by those ads on the internet that post a question similar to the title of this post. I have never and will never take part in that IQ test because it will probably download a virus onto my computer or charge me for something I didn't buy. Another reason is that I don't want to be dumber than Paris Hilton. Sure the IQ of 125 is probably arbitrary and I could always say that I went to University and she didn't (a reality show called "The smart life: Paris goes to college" doesn't count. By the way, don't bother looking that up as it's not a real show. It if ever became one, I should be able to sue). Besides, the whole idea of an IQ is kind of messed up. A high IQ simply means you can learn things better because you have a better memory and can see patterns easier. However, in all practicality,useful knowledge needs to be learned and if you put a genius in a box from birth (of course there would be food and a place to sleep since this is not torture. Also the intelligence of the genius could not be described by a wave function. That last sentence was a shout out to all the Chem nerds out there)they would not come out more useful than any of us who have gone to school for most of our lives. Thus, those people who point out they have an IQ of 170 or whatever as a way of displaying their superiority are really douche bags because that arbitrary number does not actually display how useful they are to society. And if fictional TV shows have taught us anything, it's that geniuses are often physically weak (from "Malcolm in the Middle" and "the Big Bang Theory"). Thus the genius douche bags are even less useful because they can't do a lot of the stuff they think about with their high powered brain. It's like if you put an Intel computer chip in a toaster. Would the toaster make toast faster? Perhaps. Would the toast taste better? Perhaps. Would the toast tell you what the weather is like in Nepal? Not likely. That was basically the long way of me saying how IQ tests are overrated. Perhaps they should overhaul IQ tests and set them up as problem solving exercises that could actually happen in real life. I don't know how theses problems should be set up but somehow they should make it harder for the genius douchebags to get a high IQ to prove once and for all that they are not as useful as they might like to think. Just a note to any geniuses reading this. This was written out of jealousy and jealousy is the greatest form of flattery.

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